Creative Director
Current
London, United Kingdom
Cedar Communications Ltd is a creative and commercial content agency with offices in London, Hong Kong, and Cape Town. Stuart’s role has been to oversee and develop multi platform content strategies and implementation across a broad portfolio of branded content, including print magazines, websites, e-zines and tablet editions; as well as social media, books, events, and video.Responsible for Cedar's global creative direction and design output, Stuart joined Cedar in 1999. He offers particular creative steer during the launch stages of new projects, having created award-winning work for High Life and Business Life for British Airways, and a range of other clients across many genres. He began his career in fashion design, before moving to Marshall Cavendish and then Reed Business Information where he was group art editor and PPA designer of the year two years’ running.Stuart has led pitches for and won many global brands including: British Airways, Tesco, Cathay Pacific, Airbus, Eurostar, Aer Lingus, Iberia, JaguarLandRover, Mandarin Oriental, BMW, Nikon, Thomson, Bank of Scotland, Debenhams, MCC, Dorchester, Dulux, Best Western, London Business School, Reed, Regus, House of Fraser, O2, BNP Paribas, 888.com, Virgin Atlantic, WWF, Santander, and Wonga. Cedar titles have consistently won industry awards under Stuart's design direction.Stuart has been a judge for all the major industry Awards panels, and spoken at the PPA conference. Stuart has twice judged the Harpers Wine + Spirit Design Awards, and judged the inaugural Source Snackable Content AwardsStuart’s responsibilities include the design output from Cedar South Africa and Cedar Hong Kong offices, and previously Cedar Shanghai.